Tulane University

Contact Info
adderley@tulane.edu

Degrees

• B.A., Yale University, History, 1989
• M.A., University of Pennsylvania, History, 1990
• Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, History, 1996

Academic Experience

• Associate Professor, Tulane University 2009-
• Associate Professor, Vanderbilt, 2007-2008
• Associate Professor, Tulane University, 2002-2007
• Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 1996-2002
• Visiting Assistant Professor/Woodson Fellow, University of Virginia, 2000

Research & Teaching Specializations: Caribbean; Formation of African Diaspora Culture; Atlantic Slave Trade

Related Experience

• Annual Meeting Program Chair, Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association, 2008
• Co-Editor of H-Caribbean, 2001-2008
• Member, Board of Directors, Amistad Research Center, 2004-
• Outside consultant for Ford Foundation Grant Initiative, 2000-2001
• Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History, Tulane University, 2004-2007

Distinctions

• Wesley-Logan Book Prize for New Negroes from Africa, American Historical Association, 2007
• Woodson Fellowship, University of Virginia, 1999-2000
• NEH/VFH Summer Institute for College Teachers, 1998
• Mendenhall Fellowship, Smith College, 1995-1996
• Fulbright Fellowship, 1993-1994

Languages: Spanish; French; Portuguese

Recent Publications

• 2006. New Negroes from Africa: Culture and Community Among Free African Immigrants in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• 2002. ‘“African Americans’ and ‘Creole Negroes’ : Black Migration and Colonial Interpretations of ‘Negro’ Diversity in Nineteenth-Century Trinidad.” In Marginal Migrations: The Circulation of Cultures within the Caribbean. Shalini Puri, ed. London: Macmillan Education/Warwick University Caribbean Studies Series.
• 2000. “Repatriation projects among free African communities in the 19th-century Caribbean.” Revista Mexico del Caribe. 5 (9): 140-162.
• 1999. “‘A most useful and valuable people?’ Cultural, Moral and Practical Dilemmas in the Use of Liberated African Labour in the Nineteenth-century Caribbean.” Slavery and Abolition. 20 (1): 59-80.
• 1997. “Orisha Worship and ‘Jesus Time’: Rethinking African Religious Conversion in the Nineteenth-century Caribbean.” Pennsylvania History. 64 (Special Issue): 183-206.

Recently-Taught Latin American-Related Courses:

• HISL-1720: Introduction to Caribbean History
• HISL-2912: Caribbean History
• HISL-4200: African-Derived Religions in the Americas

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years: 3